NZ Sells Out Second Show !

NEW ZEANLAND – Tickets to U2′s Auckland show sold out within an hour yesterday morning.

In excess of 50,000 tickets  , with prices starting at $39.90, went on sale at 9am and were sold out by 10am. The Irish superband will bring their U2 360 Tour to Mt Smart Stadium on November 25.

Support will be provided for the New Zealand and Australian leg of the tour by Jay-Z. Within minutes of the concert selling out tickets were appearing on the TradeMe auction site with general admission tickets attracting bids of over $400, four times their face value. A Christchurch U2 fan who started an online campaign to see the band play in the city is “gutted” she missed out on tickets to the band’s Auckland gig. Chelsea Daly, from Ilam, logged on to buy tickets this morning but they sold out before she could buy any. “I was on the site at 8.30am and still failed to get a ticket, so gutted.”

Daly had started a campaign on Facebook called Bring U2 and Jay-Z to Christchurch in Nov 2010 last week. The online approach worked for Metallica fans earlier this year when thousands of people joined en masse to convince that band to schedule a Garden City gig. Despite her efforts, Daly had received an email yesterday from concert organisers to say no Christchurch concert would be announced.

“It’s just too hard with 360 stage,” she said. “Hopefully they take notice of the page for next time.”



 

U2 announces second Auckland show

Irish rockers U2 have added a second Auckland date to their “360 degrees” world tour.

Tickets for the first concert at Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium on November 25 sold out in less than an hour on Friday. The second conert will be on November 26, and tickets will go on sale on Thursday.

Second dates were also announced for Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney and Perth.

The band will bring American rapper Jay-Z. It will be the first New Zealand stage appearance by the hip hop artist and partner of singer Beyonce Knowles.

Ticket prices start from $39.90, but a surcharge of almost $20 per transaction by an online outlet has upset many concert goers.



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U2's Spectacular Night in Athens

Crowded with thousands of spectators greeted the Olympic Stadium of U2, who 13 years after its appearance in Greece, landed in Athens for a single concert.


Umpteen people came from numerous places to Athens to watch the unique concert of the irish band U2! Everything was spetacular from the stage, which in fact was part of a spacecraft, to Bono’s magnifiscent coat with red led lights! The concert took place yesterday, at the Greek Olympic stadium with thousands of fans.

At 19:20 p.m Avin Geffen, came on stage to prepare the audience. An hour later, the band Snow Patrol followed and their singer said he was excited for being in Greece.

At 21:58 p.m the legendary rock band appeared on stage, and Bono together with the others caused delirium to the thousands of fans. Bono sang numerous great hits such as “Magnificent” and “in the name of love” , ‘passenger’ . The singer was really obliging with his fans and he roused enthusiasm to the whole stadium by saying to his Greek audience that ” I fully understand the difficult situation of the country due to the fiscal crisis, but i am convinced that Greece will be once more the winner!”

At 23:42, Bono said ” Goodnight Athens” . However, a few minutes later, he came again on stage singing ” With or Without you” wearing, a coat with red led lights! At 23:56 p.m Bono said goodbye and thanked Greece for its cordiality and hospitality, being really fluent in Greek.  However, the thousands of fans did not leave the stadium and kept on singing their great hits!

U2, gave a spectacular concert, which was full of energy, joy and of course… rock!

Hello Athens !

Χελλο Άθενς

Tonight’s big concert and the crowd in Athrens is all ready for the show thats to be held at Olympic Stadium. Tickets to be the cheapest on the tour.  U2 Fans will be able to enter the stadium at 17:30 and the boys are expected to take the stage alittle after 10pm local time. As always a team of fans will be on twitter to update the show as well as facebook.

Thousands came to Athens from all over Greece to watch the spectacular show and listen to the  band from Dublin.

It was about 13 years ago when the boys gave a single concert Todays show by all accounts is considered a sell out

Second Perth Show Added

U2 and Jay-Z sure know how to sell out a gig.

Their Subiaco Oval performance scheduled for Saturday December 18 went on sale this morning at 9am and has already sold out.

More than 43,000 tickets sold within 10 minutes.

U2's Bono is set to rock full circle in Perth with a second 360 'degrees' concert.

 

The gig will take place on Sunday December 19.

Be quick to secure tickets to this unmissable performance, with arguably the world’s most popular band bringing to Australia the biggest concert set-up we have ever seen.

U2 By The Numbers

The state of preparations at the Olympic Stadium( Athens, Greece) for the  U2 continues days before landing of the Irish band the pitch change form.  Panic sets in, no one can say with certainty that the Statium will be ready for September 12 which is the date for the next sporting event. 

More than 100 trucks transported all the equipment and no fewer number 300 technicians involved with installing the scene consisting of a cylindrical LED screen, the whole project look like a spaceship inspired by the International Airport Los Angeles.

The entire building will be impressive and according to the steel structure has a height 27.43 meters, while the central pillar reaches 45.72 meters. The construction can support weight up to 180 tons. The monitor weighs 54 tons!

The groundbreaking scene will be set up at the Olympic Stadium for the concert of U2, weighs 400 tons and can support the bottom weight even 180 tons.

4 days needed to set up the stage, screen, lights and speakers used on tour 360.

6 hours needed to be dismantled after the concert.

48 hours are doing to reposition the technical backdrop to the trucks.

50 meters in height the entire landscape of the tour 360.

Innovative screen weighs 60 tons

180 trucks carry the scene of U2 from show to show

400 tons of gear and stage

180 tons can be supported from below.

500 000 pixels is the screen of the concert.

All in a days work,

Sports Injuries Therapist joins U2 on Tour !

Hartmann, hailed as the ‘miracle’ man after nursing hurling superstar Henry Shefflin back from injury, is ready to pack his bags to join up with U2 on their world tour-as band injuries therapist.

From there, it will be onto Monte Carlo, on the invitation of the International Olympic Committee, to address sports medical practitioners.

He told the Limerick Post: “It is not generally known that I worked with U2 in the past, but this will be the biggest gig of all.

“Earlier this year I spent time with them in the States in the making of a new film due to be released in 2010. They have a tough schedule ahead and invited me to ensure that fitness levels are maintained. They keep reminding me that it was in Limerick that they took their first step to stardom.

“It is well documented that Bono suffered a serious back injury on stage recently and their tour had to be curtailed….I will be there to offer advice should any such problems be encountered again”.